Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy Movies

Simultaneously nihilistic and heartening, Ward No. 6 is based on a story by Chekov, in which a psychiatric doctor becomes a patient in his own...

Ivan Mirosnikov, a cheeky young man in the Gorbachev era, is trying to figure out what to do with his life (he's not in college, and the 2-year...

In the town of Bryakhimov, noble but poor widow Harita Ignatyevna Ogudalova seeks to arrange marriages for her three daughters. She maintains an...

The story starts in a Siberia where world's biggest diamond was found. It is so valuable that it may not only pay off the enormous national debt, but...

In the new Russia, former middle class citizens find themselves out in the dumps. Literally. They build homes, elect their own government, work, beg,...

A determined student from Chicago is forced to fulfill the last wish of his ailing grandfather. He has to travel to Odessa, Ukraine, and bring back...

The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s....

A music student is expelled from school because he loves jazz, a kind of music that represents the US capitalism. He hires two street musicians to...

On the day of their silver wedding, the wife accused her husband of being impotent and went to another man - an Arab sheikh who suddenly turned up....

A love story between a mythical Russian minister and an opportunist TV series actress.

A young romantic loves step dance but there is only one person who knows this forgotten art. Beglov was a step dance super star back in 50s but as...

Bureaucrats from a chemical plant in a small industrial town allow the lake to be polluted with waste. An enthusiast in the fight for a clean...

A company of swindlers is creating a school of nannies and teachers to provide “educational” services to the population. The company's...

The saleswoman of the village store Pasha Nikitina generously distributed all the money from the proceeds to the villagers in debt, when they were...

Andrei's parents are categorically against the intention of their son, yesterday's schoolboy, to marry a girl pregnant by him. It is not easy to make...

Wartime, summer 1941. Train carrying criminals gets under enemy fire and crashed. Out of all of the living are only a young lieutenant of the NKVD...

The head of the prison camp is friends with the manager, the head of a criminal gang. An evacuated woman with a child arrives in the city, and the...